Evolution or Creation?
The Moon - and solar eclipses
The average distance from of the moon from Earth is 240,000 miles; the average distance from the Earth to the sun is approximately 93 million miles.[58]
To achieve a perfect solar eclipse, the apparent size of the moon in the sky has to be the same apparent size of the sun in the sky. [1] The sun is 400 times bigger than the moon, but it is 400 times further away [1] and this "coincidence" has been noted by people for centuries.[63]
"This allows us to observe a part of the sun that's critical to our understanding — its atmosphere and how its light is produced. The fact that the earth is going around the sun and the moon is going around the earth, and the sizes and distances between the earth and the moon are just so to give you a perfect solar eclipse, is a wondrous thing because it allows us to measure the constituents of the upper layers of the sun's atmosphere." — Bijan Nemati, Physicist, Jet Propulsion Laboratories[63]
"The best place to observe a total eclipse of the sun is from the surface of the earth." — Guillermo Gonzalez, Astrobiologist[63]
Friction by the tides is slowing the earth’s rotation, so the length of a day is increasing by 0.002 seconds per century. This means that the earth is losing angular momentum. The Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum says that the angular momentum the earth loses must be gained by the moon. Thus the moon is slowly receding from Earth at about 4 cm (1½ inches) per year, and the rate would have been greater in the past. The moon could never have been closer than 18,400 km (11,500 miles), known as the Roche Limit, because Earth’s tidal forces (i.e., the result of different gravitational forces on different parts of the moon) would have shattered it. But even if the moon had started receding from being in contact with the earth, it would have taken only 1.37 billion years to reach its present distance. This is the maximum possible age — far too young for evolution (and much younger than the radiometric ‘dates’ assigned to moon rocks) — not the actual age.[56]
If the moon had really been receding for billions of years, and man had been around for a tiny fraction of that time, the chances of mankind living at a time so he could observe the precise size match up of a solar eclipse would be remote.[56]